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Catherine’s Career
“Now, jack, please don't be sentimental. You
know how] hate it. Besides you have inter-
rupted me just when l was convincing you that
education will solve the race problem, and that
is annoying.” Poor jack! Catherine little imag-
ined what courage that interruption had taken.
Nor did she realize how unheeding he had been
as she rolled forth her arguments. (She had just
been reading an article in The North Ame1'1'ccm
Review.)
“But, you know, I have been wanting to speak
for . .
“I thought you knew better, too,” Catherine
continued a little sorrowfully, “a person of my
ambitious aspirations” (Catherine lived for ambi-
tious aspirations), “ isn’t going to be happy settling
down into a general entertainer and housekeeper
for mankind, always sweet and pretty and dainty,
standing every evening on the little porch all
tumbling over with honeysuckle, dressed in white
with a red rose tucked in my belt (that's your ideal,
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